Tukaş plans an olive plant in Manyas: 2,000 tonnes a year, a 14.7 million lira ÇED application
The Okullu brothers, owners of Tukaş Gıda and Cem Zeytin, have applied for an ÇED for a 2,000-tonne-a-year table olive processing and packing plant on the factory site in Manyas, Balıkesir: 500 tonnes green, 800 tonnes black, 700 tonnes sele olives; project cost 14.7 million lira.
The brothers Cem and Cengiz Okullu, owners of Tukaş Gıda and of Cem Zeytin, which makes private-label olives for supermarket chains, have applied for an environmental impact assessment (ÇED) to build an olive processing and packing plant with an annual capacity of 2,000 tonnes at the Tukaş factory in Manyas, Balıkesir. The project cost is 14.7 million lira. The report was published on 11 November 2026; the figures come from the information in the ÇED file.
This is a table olive investment; the report does not mention olive oil production.
What will the plant process?
According to the ÇED file, the 2,000-tonne annual capacity is split among three products:
| Product | Annual capacity (tonnes) | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Green olives | 500 | 25% |
| Black olives | 800 | 40% |
| Sele olives | 700 | 35% |
| Total | 2,000 | 100% |
The percentage shares are our calculation from the tonnages in the report. The report says the olives will first be processed in a pre-preparation unit and then turned into pitted, unpitted and sliced products according to customer orders.
Why Manyas?
The plant will not go on a new site but within the existing Tukaş factory at Yeniköy neighbourhood, Manyas. The factory currently makes tomato paste, canned food, roasted vegetables, frozen food, ready meals, boiled products and corn. According to the report, the company aims to add olive processing to this portfolio.
The Okullu brothers already have a history with olives. The report says olives are produced at Cem Zeytin's facilities in Edremit and that Tukaş makes vegetables, pickles, roasted vegetables and olives at its factory in the Akhisar Olive Organised Industrial Zone. Manyas would then be the third address where the group handles olives. The report does not count it this way; that is our reading of the three place names it mentions.
Scale and financing
The report does not give a daily capacity; only the annual 2,000 tonnes.
For Cem Zeytin's financial position, see Cem Zeytin 9 ayda 486 milyon lira zarar etti. The report has nothing on Tukaş's or Cem Zeytin's accounts or on how the investment will be financed.
What the report does not say
- Which authority received the ÇED application, when, and at what stage it is.
- Daily capacity, headcount, completion date.
- Where the olives will be sourced and which varieties.
- Export or domestic sales plans.
What to watch
The outcome of the ÇED process (a "required" or "not required" decision) will show the investment's next step. For the registration structure of the table olive sector, see sofralık zeytin sektörü: 461 kayıtlı, 8.000 kayıt dışı.
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